Fired Syneos Health Workers: Company Ignored Tennessee Vaccination Law

Syringes with a COVID-19 vaccine are pictured in Central Falls, R.I., in a file photograph. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

While Syneos Health fired employees who refused to get vaccinated for COVID-19, it allowed Florida residents to keep working. Presumably, the company was following Florida’s law, enacted in November, that prohibits private employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines.

Under Florida’s law, businesses with 99 or fewer employees face a fine of $10,000 per employee violation, while larger businesses must pay $50,000 per violation. But Tennessee employees were fired despite a similar state law, also passed in November.